Status of Iran’s Nuclear Programme in relation to the Joint Plan of Action Jorge M. Consultant on International Affairs, Former Ambassador of Cuba to the IAEA and OPCW and Former IAEA Senior Manager Status of Iran’s Nuclear Programme in relation to the Joint Plan of Action, Report by the Director General According to document GOV/INF/2015/2 Date: 20 January 2015, the IAEA confirms that since 20 January 2014, Iran has: i. not enriched uranium above 5% U-235 at any of its declared facilities; ii. not operated cascades in an interconnected configuration at any of its declared facilities; diluted – down to an enrichment level of no more than 5% U-235 – 108.4 kg of UF6 enriched up to 20% U-235;5 iv. fed 100 kg of UF6 enriched up to 20% U-235 into the conversion process at the Fuel Plate Fabrication Plant (FPFP) for conversion into uranium oxide; v. had no process line to reconvert uranium oxides back into UF6 at FPFP; vi. not made “any further advances” to its activities at the Fuel Enrichment Plant (FEP), the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant (FFEP) or the Arak reactor (IR-40 Reactor), including the manufacture and testing of fuel for the IR-40 Reactor; vii. provided an updated Design Information Questionnaire (DIQ) for the IR-40 Reactor and concluded with the Agency a safeguards approach for the reactor6 (based on the updated DIQ and the safeguards measures agreed on 5 May 2014); viii. fed 2720 kg of UF6 enriched up to 5% U-235 into the conversion process at the Enriched UO2 Powder Plant (EUPP) for conversion into uranium oxide; ix. continued its safeguarded enrichment R&D practices at the Pilot Fuel Enrichment Plant (PFEP), without accumulating enriched uranium; x. not carried out reprocessing related activities at the Tehran Research Reactor (TRR) and the Molybdenum, Iodine and Xenon Radioisotope Production (MIX) Facility or at any of the other facilities to which the Agency has access; xi. provided information and managed access to the uranium mine and mill at Gchine,7 to the Saghand Uranium Mine8 and the Ardakan Uranium Production Plant;9 xii. continued to provide daily access to the enrichment facilities at Natanz and Fordow; xiii. provided regular managed access to centrifuge assembly workshops, centrifuge rotor production workshops and storage facilities, and provided information thereon; and xiv. provided,10 in relation to enhanced monitoring, the following: • plans for nuclear facilities and a description of each building on each nuclear site; • descriptions of the scale of operations being conducted for each location engaged in specified nuclear activities; and • information on uranium mines and mills, and on source material. In addition, the Agency confirms that since 24 July 2014, Iran has: i. used 27.7 kg of U3O8, converted from UF6 enriched up to 20% U-235, for the manufacture of fuel items for TRR;11,12 ii. used 0.084 kg of U3O8, converted from UF6 enriched up to 20% U-235, for the manufacture of miniature fuel plates for Mo99 production;13 and iii. diluted about 4118 kg of UF6 enriched up to 2% U-235 to the level of natural uranium.
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